A modern magazine tracing the roots of style.

'Revival is not so much about looking backwards as attempting to create a new and different future from that offered by the market, consumerism and mainstream aesthetics. It seems to me [ and I must be forgiven if I am wrong ] that few of us in retro and revival culture would wish to go back to the moral and technological straight-jacket of the mid-twentieth century. If my interpretation is shared by any of our readers they will understand when I say there has been so much that is good discarded from the Post-war period and we simply desire to correct those mistakes. In other words there never was a need for all cars to become characterless air-conditioned boxes, hermetically sealed so that a perfectly good wrench [ that helped take man to the moon ] will no longer even remove the engine cover. Or for clothing to be made so that it falls to pieces after a few weeks or for that matter for grown men to style themselves as a cross between an urban surfer and a boy-band front man just to please their girlfriends [ there I go airing my pet hates again! ].
Quality is subjective and hearing a non re-mastered Gene Vincent of [ for our French readers ] Jacques Brel coming directly from vinyl, even through a Dansette, hits all the right notes and feels somehow, more real or [ dare I say ] authentic than coming through an i-Pod, as clever as they are. I can't say why, it just feels more like being there – whatever that means.
In issue 02 of Men's File we celebrate the hand-made and the maker showcasing workshops as diverse as metal fabrication and cricket bat construction. We look at the beauty and elegance of rustic architecture and sport with English cricket pavilions and sartorial cricket style as well as covering a 20mph soapbox derby and a 200mph black line painted onto the floor of a horizontal salt lake in the American West.'- Sydney Schaffer, Editor-in-Chief

Issue 02.
Hot Rod Cars and Bikes, Soapboxes: Speedy Wood, Skate Style: The Daddies, Ton-up Boys, Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion, Burlesque Girls, Cycling, Vintage cricket style

Country of origin: England
English text
2 issues per year
28 x 23 cm
128 pages